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Dust Dominates Foreign Aerosol Imports to North America
NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the amount and composition of tiny airborne particles...
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Celebrating Impractical Physicists
Do you think cutting-edge scientists should earn as much as star athletes, celebrity artists or Wall Street bankers? The...
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Dramatic Miniaturization of Metamaterials?
In a vacuum, light travels so fast that it would circle Earth more than seven times within the blink...
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Higgs Boson Results From LHC ‘Get Even Stronger’
The Higgs boson-like particle whose discovery was announced on 4 July looks significantly more certain to exist. The particle...
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Want to Live on Mars? Here’s Your Chance
Just as NASA’s latest rover prepares to land on the surface of Mars, one Dutch company is looking to...
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Entropy Can Lead to Order, Paving Route to Nanostructures
Researchers trying to herd tiny particles into useful ordered formations have found an unlikely ally: entropy, a tendency generally...
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Dance as Algorithm: What Happens When an Animated GIF Comes to Life
To learn about the Internet, we tend to turn to … the Internet. Blogs comment on blogs commenting on...
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U.S. Federal Court Says Stem Cell Treatments Are Drugs
A U.S. federal court has found that a stem cell therapy offered by a Colorado clinic meets the definition...
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Planetary Science: The Time Machine
Dating features on the Moon and Mars is guesswork. Scott Anderson is building a tool to change that.
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Why Do We Keep Going Back to Mars?
The huge NASA rover speeding toward an August landing on Mars may be the most capable and complex Red...